Magazine Category Fotograf Gallery

American artist Trevor Paglen needs no introduction. He has already gained media attention at the international level, and in the Czech environment, his work has been recently put on the map by his exhibition How Deep is the Ocean How High is the Sky presented at the Fotograf Festival…

Johana Pošová

Portrait photography that shows smiling family members convinces us that this is the right form of family happiness. Yet we all know that the reality is different and more complicated – hiding behind the doors of our homes, away from the photographer’s viewfinder…

Zuzana Šrámková

Vladimír Havlík

Rudolf Skopec

Tomáš Hrůza

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s exhibition at the Fotograf Gallery was presented as one of the highlights of the most recent edition of the Fotograf Festival. Given the theme of the festival – Cultura/Natura – the artist and the exhibition’s curator, Tomáš Pospiszyl, selected a set of works based on the contrasts between nature and civilization…

Jiří Poláček

Several photos by Jiří Poláček were reprinted in Fotograf #15: Prague. The artist died last year shortly after his 70th birthday, and Fotograf Gallery presented the first ever retrospective exhibition of his work…

Rafani

According to the artists, their latest major exhibition project in Prague is mainly about time, as is apparent even from the title itself. Permanent Transformation uses the repeating motif of a child to link the topic of the future with other occurrences – death, destruction and decay, and more-or-less associated existential messages…

Václav Stratil

After Václav Stratil won the Michal Ranný Award in 2014, we had the opportunity to immediately see several large exhibitions devoted to his work. The successful project Doing Nothing and Other Works moved from the Moravian Gallery to Prague’s Futura…

Jan Nálevka

This trio of the artist’s works is based on his natural interest in the pre-war leftist avant-garde art movement with its, at that time, contemporary vision of a utopia in the near future and, no less importantly, on modern Functionalist architecture…

Tereza Kabůrková

Over the past few decades, exhibitions have increasingly started to consist of white gallery walls and only a few sparsely placed artworks. As if the significance of the work is so great that it needs a multitude of space and an area into which it can expand…

Dušan Skala’s and Jan Freiberg’s Slow Photography

February 28 – April 4, 2014

The program of Fotograf Gallery is also inclusive of artists who work only marginally with photography. In this case, the curator Jiří Ptáček has selected artists who pursue, or rather have pursued, photography to the exclusion of all other media…

Pavel Hečko

April 18 – May 16, 2014

In 2013, the curators Eva and Tomáš Pospěch commemorated the work of Pavel Hečko (b. 1951) with an exhibition in Ostrava’s Fiducia Photo Gallery, entitled Restitution as a Means of Returning Things to their Original State (Restituce jako uvedení věci do původního stavu)…

Kateřina Zochová

May 23 – June 20, 2014

Václav Magid

June 27 – July 25, 2014

Jesper Alvaer, Isabela Grosseová

January 30 – February 28, 2015

You know the feeling: when you turn the magnifying glass or telescope the other way around, the world suddenly seems extremely far away. The works of the duo Grosseová and Alvaer are similar in their effect: the artists most often address a problem of an institutional nature (they themselves refer to their works as dealing with issues) and they continue to step further and further away until the field of vision is not simply the scale and criteria of each individual work, but often the entire “art world” as such…

Marianne Vierø

November 7 – December 4, 2014

For her solo exhibition at Fotograf Gallery, Marianne Vierø explored her fascination with J. F. Earhart’s 1892 book The Color Printer: A Treatise on the Use of Colors in Typographic Printing…

Martin Vongrej

October 3 – 31, 2014

Filip and Matěj Smetana

September 3 – 26, 2014

Martin Horák

Ten portraits of Marilyn Monroe, immaculately mounted in the pristine space of Fotograf Gallery. Displayed in varying formats, their uneven and rugged edges were in stark contrast with the antiseptic geometry of their frames…

Anna Hulačová & Viktor Takáč

If we were to look among contemporary Czech artists for someone who strongly represents both the current position and the classical values of the medium of sculpture, one possible choice would be Anna Hulačová…

Vladimír Skrepl

If the general principle of collage itself is deserving of thorough neurological examination, this is especially true of the collages of Vladimír Skrepl. Intense visual impulses which connect disparate and contradictory fragments put to the test the synapses of the viewers’ brain – his antagonistic content triggers a response from both the first and second signal system…

Frontiers of Solitude

5. 2. 2016 — 4. 3. 2016

The exhibition ‘Frontiers of Solitude’, held in Prague at the Školská 28, Fotograf and Ex Post galleries, was a part of the eponymous international art research project focused on how the landscape is transformed by human activities, particularly as a result of mining and the use of natural resources…

Šimon Štrba

15. 1. 2016 — 30. 1. 2016

In the latter part of Jananuary 2016, Fotograf Gallery hosted an unusual exhibition, presenting the work of Šimon Štrba, student of the Department of Photography at the Faculty of Arts and Design at the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, who died prematurely at the age of twenty-tree…

Adam Havelka, Eva Rybářová, Matěj Pavlík, Jan Kováříček

4. 12. 2015 — 9. 1. 2016

A review of the exhibition Agent could be conceived as a search for the hero of the title. The original meaning of the word agent denotes one who acts…

Josef Rabara a Karol Radziszewski

4. 9. 2015 — 26. 9. 2015

Tomorrow Will Be Different, a two-person exhibition featuring the photography of Josef Rabara and Karol Radziszewski, took place at the Fotograf Gallery in September…

Silvie Milková

The exhibition called The Impossibility of Jumping over a Plate presented a collection of photographs to which one succumbed such as one succumbs to a conjurer’s tricks. Silvie Milková drew the gallery visitor into a game similar to the games an illusionist plays with his audience…

Petr Strouhal

A former football goalie and prospect in mechanical (machine) engineering, and also a student at Brno’s FaVU – Faculty of Fine Arts, Petr Strouhal does not rank among the media stars of his generation; even though he showed up twice at Prague’s Youth Biennale curated by Karel Císař and Jiří Ptáček exhibits his work almost all the time and everywhere…

Erik Sikora

Erik Sikora examines art through long-term stress tests. He tests art as an expansive luminary, as a free public space, as a medium for other media and as a possibility for life or directly for subsistence…

Zines of the Zone

Zines of the Zone, an exhibition of photography zines and DIY publications, took place on Wednesday, 9 April 2014, at the Fotograf Gallery, which thus supported a group of young French enthusiasts on their European tour…

35 Branches (From Vít Soukup’s Photo Archive)

The Fotograf Gallery prepared an exhibition called, 35 větví (35 Branches) with the sub-title, From Vít Soukup’s Photo Archive for this season. This prematurely deceased artist (1971–2007) gained attention many times in previous years – his most extensive exhibition so far, Všechno co bylo (All There Was), took place this past spring at the Divus Gallery…

Štěpán Grygar

The exhibition, Štěpán Grygar 12 and 13, shows the newest creations of photographer and Prague FAMU teacher, Štěpán Grygar. The three photo collections of staged photography create a compact entity that reflects the creative principles typical of Grygar’s artistic work up to now…

Vilém Novák

What is likely to be the cultural distinction between man and beings composed of cubically, mutually organically, inter-morphing masses? Vilém Novák showed his work, Them/Oni, at the Fotograf Gallery…

Lucia Sceranková, guest: Pavla Sceranková

Water has leaked into the walls at the Fotograf Gallery. They caught it here in the middle of the room and closed it off with fire. Sun poured into the showcase and a little further on time stopped…

Alexey Klyuykov a Vasil Artamonov: Poušť

23. 1. — 22. 2. 2013

This dual exhibition at Fotograf Gallery consisted of Ladislava Gažiová´s Wasteland and an eponymous parallel exhibition by the duo Artamonov/Klyuykov. One of the items on exhibit – a large, faded white notice board – featured a short quote from a book by the Italian writer Dino Buzzati, printed in rubber office stamps…

Martin Kochan, host Cyril Blažo

Serious works of art are often born out of struggle, suffering, and pain. On the other hand, there are exhibitions which make it instantly obvious that the artist had great fun in creating the works on display…

Filip Cenek & Josef Dabernig: poetry in stadiums

The darkened room slowly lights up with a slide-show, revealing at first some shrubbery, and eventually there emerges the urban landscape of a football stadium which has fallen into disrepair. Captions – in the form of sentences or verses – are screened in a faster sequence than the photographs…

Michal Ureš: Samaritaine blanc

Michal Ureš and I happen to go back a long way (we even own the same model of shooting-brake coupe), and yet I am still at a loss of what to make of his photographs. Although I admire their acute visual sensibility, I am often left guessing as to where exactly they might be pointing…